Marco Rubio’s tax returns show book deals boosted salary

Marco Rubio’s campaign released his returns to pressure Donald Trump to disclose his taxes.

Marco Rubio’s campaign released his returns to pressure Donald Trump to disclose his taxes.

Photo: Mike Stewart, Associated Press

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Marco Rubio’s campaign released his returns to pressure Donald Trump to disclose his taxes.

Marco Rubio’s campaign released his returns to pressure Donald Trump to disclose his taxes.

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Marco Rubio’s tax returns show book deals boosted salary

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WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio released summaries of his past five years of tax filings Saturday, revealing him to be a candidate with a senator’s steady annual income of $176,000 who reaped repeated windfalls from book deals. During his first four years in the Senate, Rubio and wife Jeanette together earned an average of $531,000 a year.

Since he won election to an office in Washington, Rubio’s income has ranged from $276,059 to $938,963, and he has paid between $46,500 and $254,894 in federal income tax. Most of the income came from a business that collected royalties on two books.

In 2012, his most lucrative year, his effective tax rate topped out at a little more than 31 percent.

Rubio’s release of his returns comes after Republican front-runner Donald Trump said in Thursday’s GOP debate that his tax returns have been the subject of audits for at least a dozen consecutive years. He said he would not release them until that process concludes.

“We’re putting these out today to put pressure on Trump and the other candidates to release theirs,” said Rubio campaign spokesman Alex Conant.

The disclosure makes Rubio the only of the top three Republican candidates to fulfill pledges to disclose their tax information. Despite criticizing Trump during the debate for not disclosing his tax filings, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas did not meet a self-imposed deadline of Friday to release his returns.